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The Wealthy Affiliate is a membership site that has a recurring cost of $29.00 a month, which equates to a $360 a year product, so it is going to have to deliver impressively for people to remain members. So what exactly does it have to offer for its $29?

One of the biggest misconceptions about the Wealthy Affiliate is that it is a membership site that provides keyword lists, it does, however this does not even begin to touch the surface of what your dollars get you. Whilst you remain a member you have access to a link tracking service, so that you can track how your landing pages are converting, there are web templates that you can use for landing pages, feeder sites again for using as landing pages.

I particularly found the in depth case studies provided me with an insight into starting a campaign from scratch. There are Video tutorials. The forums are a thriving community where failure is not an option, everybody helps eveybody out, the level of knowledge in the forums is second to none. I know having also been a subscriber to an alternative membership scheme prior to joining Wealthy Affiliate.

Kyle and Carson the 2 guys that setup the Wealthy Affiliate have a goal, that everybody should succeed using the methods and techniques they teach, for them it is very much a hands on roll, they post daily in the forums.But the icing on the cake has to be the private mentoring that you can get from Kyle and Carson, they will peronsally login to your adwords account and check everything for you and ensure you are on the right track to being successful.

In conclusion I would have to say that the Wealthy Affiliate is a resource that offers a great deal of information on Affiliate Mareketing. Having said that the individual has to be prepared to read through the masses of information and choose how they implement the techniques and strategies in search for online success. It will take hard work, determination and dedication to develop a profitable online business, but the Wealthy Affiliate will provide you with a solid framework to learn and build at the same time

Tony Roberts is now a full time Affiliate Marketeer after giving up full time job as an IT Consultant , for more information, check out Wealthy Affiliate Review - Scam or Genuine Money Making Opportunity

Visitors find related information by using a search engine. You may have the most incredible website on the Internet, but it will receive little or no traffic without search engine visibility and ranking.

The goal for your website is to appear on the first or second page of the search engines’ results when your target users searches keywords or keyword phrases. Because most people who use search engines only look at the first page or two of the search results. Search engines like Google, AltaVista, MSN etc currently indexing over 10 billion pages; hence it becomes more and more difficult to get listed in top rank.

The creation of original and high quality contents provides the highest returns. It's extremely important to set aside time to research on your content as content plays a vital role, if you want to get listed in top rank of search engines. Content is extremely important because it ‘s the content which is indexed in search engines and on this indexing position of a website depends in search engines. Also do some research to find good keywords, which you think will be used by visitors to find your website. Use good keywords with low competition. Content also play a role to get inbound one-way links for your website as if content is good then other web sites wants to link with your website.

Link popularity in simply terms is the total number of web pages that link to your web page or website. Search engines rank web pages and websites by checking link popularity of your website. Link popularity increase the visitor’s traffic and getting good web page rank given by search engines. Always try to increase incoming links on your website, as incoming links are relevant links which is relevant to your website services and products. Incoming links helps to get targeted visitors who are looking for similar type of services or products over web. Another type of link exchange is reciprocal link in this type of link webmasters exchange links with other in order to boost their link popularity. Adding links in your website is a very effective way to get direct traffic to your website.

At this time Google is at number one along with Yahoo! And MSN Search at second and third place respectively. These three search engines holds / represent between 85% and 95% of all traffic that arrives at a website directed by a search engine or directory service.

Try to add your website in all search engines and directories, if you website get listed in Google it doesn’t means that your work is over. Try to promote and add your website in other search engines also like MSN, AltaVista etc. And above all try to list your website in Open Directory (Dmoz) as it is the most important directory that exists on the web today.

MSN Search currently holds a smaller share of the search engine market than Google or Yahoo! But MSN has the constant attention of consumers, because of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, as long as MSN has such a strong majority of the browser market they are able to be in market for a long-long time. That’s why try to list your website in MSN Search also.

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Estimates suggest that approx 7.3 million pages are being added daily, to the repository called web (Cyveillance Study) & that this rate of addition of information, is continuously accelerating.

With this level of energy & inputs going into the web everyday then, no wonder the indexing & cataloguing services (that we popularly understand as search engines) are increasingly becoming important players in the web site visibility scenario. In fact, with their capacities to influence online traffic & sales, the search engines are becoming very powerful arenas for marketing.

So of late, businesses have started to give a serious look at promoting themselves well with search engines. This domain of search engine marketing then is increasingly becoming a revenue driver as is an important brand building exercise. Companies typically look at it now, as a strategic initiative.

Inspite of increasing importance of online promotions, there is a lot of haze about what search engine marketing is? What does it entail? What are its parameters? This small SEM FAQ attempts to remove this obscurity by answering some of these questions.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - What is it?

Search Engine Marketing is essentially an art of being able to achieve two things for a web site:

Deep indexing of the site. This is simpler terms means being able to get as many pages of the site into the search engine database.

Better Ranking of the site. This essentially is the craft of making the site/page rank well for specific user queries.

Are there different types of SEM?

Yes, essentially SEM is of two types.

In the first, the consultant will have to change the web site ( called search engine optimization or SEO for brevity) for doing proper SEM work. Thereafter the site has to be continuously interlinked with best of other online resources. This will ensure good editorial listings for the site.

Typically this work takes 6 to 8 months to produce stable & lasting results.

A shorter yet paid way of promoting a site with search engines is Pay per Click(PPC). In this SEM campaign, you can bid on your search phrases & when those phrases are searched, your advertisement will appear on the results page. Once some one clicks on your ad, the bid amount is deducted from your account.

Does SEM help?

A good SEM campaign is a means to an end. It can get your site to rank well for your business search terms. However the sales & revenues on your site are driven entirely by the user experience & the business merits.

SEM gets the traffic. Site has to sell.

What does SEM entail?

To achieve deeper indexing & a better ranking the SEM starts at the level of web design. When one is conceiving of creating a business presence online he has to keep two factors in mind:

User experience in navigating the site.

Spider experience in navigating the site.

These two users will see different pictures of the same site. The human user will see the browser supported, colorful front end. The spider( software, search engines send to crawl the web for information) will see only the text on the site.

So different strategies need to be adopted for each set of users. As web designers are engaged for formulating the site for end users, simultaneously, SEM consultant should figure in to optimize the site for spiders.

What are SEM tools?

The elements that SEM consultants play with to achieve their ends are:

Text (most crucial as spiders are image blind)

Tags (HTML tags are important components in the SEM tweaks)

Internal linking (The site navigation & links effect the sites indexing & ranking)

External linking (A site is also known by the company it keeps)

Then there are hundreds of do & donts that should be implemented within a site. However, bear in mind that there are no set rules for SEM only ‘Best Practices’. This is a very experience specific domain. So your site is promoted as good or as bad as your consultant is.

Another characteristic of this domain is the fact that Search engines keep tweaking around on their ranking criterion as well as technological prowess. Hence an SEM consultant has to be always on his toes with his ears to the ground. A difficult posture to adopt in any part of the world. This is because there is a very short gap between him & obsolescence. If you are not keyed in, the industry would have moved on, in as short time as a quarter.

When to start SEM

Ideally SEM should commence along with the plan for the web site construction. This is because the results of SEM will be best, if the site has been built base up keeping the SEM principles in perspective.

However most of the businesses come to the SEM mindset almost as an afterthought. This is when their sites have languished in the search engine indexes for a while that they realize the need to start promoting their wares online.

So if you have not undertaken SEM at the start of the web design process, start as soon as possible, for it is not a short sprint but a marathon The results start to show up after a good length of time. Hence the opportunity cost( in terms of lost sales) for a delayed SEM campaign can be huge.

Do all businesses need SEM?

No some sites automatically would rank well. For example .edu, .gov domain sites are given a preference by search engines. Hence most of them would not need SEM. Also all non commercial sites which are authorities in their respective domains will fall in this category as well.

SEM is most important for the businesses who sell good/services online or who have a offline delivery model, yet source their inquiries online. Another category are businesses who intend to establish an online brand or beat competition.

Vikas Malhotra is a successful Internet marketer utilizing both pay-per-click marketing and search engine optimization to increase website traffic. To learn more, visit http://sem.mosaic-service.com

After conducting extensive research I have come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of m